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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Well, actually I had 3 devices, a macbook pro with a keyboard case, a iPad Pro 12.9 and an iMac 27". The iPad Pro worked better to carry around with me and the iMac worked better at home, so the macbook pro simply wasn't being used.
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Logical. Ipad serves all your needs.
Now consider the following cases:
1. You need mobility and you also need something more lightweight than macbook pro, but at the same time you need to run some emulation of windows for a program which was written for windows only. You cannot run this program on ios, but possible on mac's os.
2. You need mobility, to work on something which you carry around, and then go back home and work on something more efficient, by way of just plugging it in, and without switing devices or taking care of any sync (be it through wifi or ethernet).
3. You are travelling, and do need something more efficient part of the day, and more mobility the other part. And you do not want to carry two devices with you on the trip, but only one.
If Apple's research team is not looking into it, it is quite efficient in this respect.
The answer is that model, that I have described.
Now, I think the Apple's may have met with some patent issues, or with some security issues, or with some technological issues (it is not quite easy to integrate something powerful into keyboard, without adding more weight or more heat).
Also it is quite a new line for Apple, and after Steve Jobs has gone, it is not so ambitious in occuping new market and demand areas as before. But things can change.
I think Apple may test the market with the 14 inch model, analogue of Surface Book 2.
14 inch is not too big for the tablet to carry around, and it is the professional size. And yet it is smaller than 15 inch, so may appeal to greater audience.
If Apple is scared, let them make the sample device, and give it to others to test, and they'll see how useful it can be.
If Apple is scared that it will be loosing the market for Ipad with this device, then I'd say it is not necessarily so, because this device will be more expensive than Ipad, and not many people need additional keyboard, when they only need good tablet.
Another option is also to enable such a device to be able to run IOS mode, if a person finds that he basically needs the tablet for a longer time. But this is just in the area of distant possibilities.